Configurations

dateparser‘s parsing behavior can be configured like below

``PREFER_DAY_OF_MONTH`` defaults to current and can have first and last as values:

>>> from dateparser.conf import settings
>>> from dateparser import parse
>>> parse(u'December 2015')
datetime.datetime(2015, 12, 16, 0, 0)
>>> settings.update('PREFER_DAY_OF_MONTH', 'last')
>>> parse(u'December 2015')
datetime.datetime(2015, 12, 31, 0, 0)
>>> settings.update('PREFER_DAY_OF_MONTH', 'first')
>>> parse(u'December 2015')
datetime.datetime(2015, 12, 1, 0, 0)

``PREFER_DATES_FROM`` defaults to current_period and can have past and future as values. Assuming current date is June 16, 2015:

>>> from dateparser.conf import settings
>>> from dateparser import parse
>>> parse(u'March')
datetime.datetime(2015, 3, 16, 0, 0)
>>> settings.update('PREFER_DATES_FROM', 'future')
>>> parse(u'March')
datetime.datetime(2016, 3, 16, 0, 0)